沉重的打击

I was assigned a task and I have been prepared for it since a month ago. I had no issue with this task since this is not my first time doing the similiar job and in addition I have been tested it on testing site. There are 4 hours maintenance windows approved by the US big boss. On the day I implement this task, I hit an idiot Oracle bug which only returned at the very last phase of the whole implementation and I have no choice but to rollback the whole implementation, and at that time I have only 30minutes left to recover the database, damn, and that was I have been working from 4 hours since 12am, I tried my best to keep my brain operate well for not to do a single mistake in recovering the databse. And it ends up I exceeded 1.5 hours for the whole downtime windows... Shit.. you will never believe how much it cost of this 1.5 hours downtime, it is like the cab's meter which counting every minutes in USD...damnit SLA

Then after the rollback, I was busy with preparing all the reports to explain it to management, I found this bug only occured on certain server which I am so "lucky" to pick up this task on this "special" server. Imagine I worked from 12am till 8am in the morning, then I go to bed like a zombie.. but i couldn't sleep well, my support phone keeps ringing and I have to drag myself out from my cozy bed to reply all the email sent by those BIG BOSS and clean up all the shit. Well, it was a great blow to me, definitely my manager was so mad on this.

Then today, 2 days after this incident, I create a trouble again. I backup some file and by the time I need to restore it back to the server, it returned "checksum error"!!!! gosh, not again, this is another SLA impact production server. Why all these gao gao issue only happened while I did something on production server!!! so this is another 2 hours downtime for me to request the tape backup offshore.. I think I spend my whole life in this company also not able to pay the SLA penalty. This really reminds me of the Elizaberth Town.

I was so depressed, why am i being so careless, I should have think further for the backup plan in case of any failure. I shouldn't be so over-confident and just take everything easy, it is not easy man!! IT IS A PRODUCTION SERVER!!! I have been told the same sentence from my manager few times over the week..I am not new in the company anymore, I should aware of the SLA impact, there is no excuse for me to hide from the blame. I was so ashame to face my manager now, I think I really disappoint him.

Phantom of the Opera

I can't claim myself a big fan of Phantom of the Opera, but this is my best-loved musical especially the song of it. Allan once jokingly told me we can go to Her Majestys Theatre in London to watch this when we are rich!!Haha. We both love this musical very much and it is my dream to watch the PTO LIVE. We were so excited once we know the PTO will be brought to Singapore and we don't need to be rich to watch it..haha... Allan know it first and he planned for this trip to watch the PTO - it's nothing better than your dream comes true!!

Here's our tickets!!!

And here we are at the Esplanade!!!

This musical is very nice, it is the longest-running musical on Broadway. Everything is perfect - the song, the costume, the lighting, the stage, the acting, the orchestra.... we watched the movie of PTO two years ago and we already like it so much, not to mention we watch it live.

I was really amazed by the stage decoration, there is one scene - the labyrinth underground, which the background set as the underground lair and the phantom and Christine on the boat, the stage really looks like real river!! when they are moving forward with the boat, you can see the "candles" on the river is moving as well.. And also the scene where the chandelier dropped off from the ceiling, I almost hold my breath although my seat was quite far from the stage. Besides, the "Masquerade" scene is soooo pretty where i heard few peoples around me sound "wah!" when the scene started....and also....It was just too many attraction of this musical which I cant tell entirely here, you must go and watch it yourself to feel it, I can guarantee you it is worth of the price...

see my expression after the play? Super satisfied. One more please.

Of course we don't come back straight after the PTO, me and Allan spend 4 days in Singapore. We went to Sentosa Island, Night Safari, Orchard Road, Suntec City, Vivo City...Hmm, I love the night safari, I was back to a kindergarten kid when I was there, it was such a special experience that you can see the animals in such short distance at night. The rest of the itenary was quite bored, the major activities are just shopping and more shoppingss...

Sentosa 'Hot'land
The leopard
and the Orang Hutan

I miss this duck rice from Chinatown's HongLim hawker center..yum yum...